About the cultural customs of the Mid Autumn Festival, what are the customs of the Mid Autumn Festiv

Do you know what customs are there during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

The traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are:1. Worship the moon. As one of the important rituals of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon worship has gradually evolved into a folk moon appreciation and moon worship activity, and has also become the main form of modern people's desire to reunite and express their good wishes for life.

12. Play with lanterns. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty's "Wulin Old Things", it was recorded that the Mid-Autumn Festival night customs were 'putting a little red light into the river to drift and play.' Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns, mostly concentrated in the south. As mentioned above, there are all kinds of colorful lanterns in Foshan, which is amazing.

13. Drink osmanthus wine. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk have the custom of drinking osmanthus wine since ancient times. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the bright moon, smelling the bursts of cinnamon, thinking of Wu Gang cutting cinnamon, drinking a glass of osmanthus nectar wine, celebrating the sweetness of the family, gathering together, has become a festival enjoyment.

Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the August Festival, the August Festival, the Moon Chasing Festival, the Moon Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, the Daughter's Festival or the Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, which is on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar; Because it coincides with the middle of the third autumn, hence the name, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals on a par with the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national holiday.

On May 20, 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

Myths and legends: Wu Gang won the laurels.

According to legend, there was a person named Wu Gang in the Moon Palace, who was a native of Xihe in the Han Dynasty, who had followed the immortals to cultivate and reached the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, and the immortals relegated him to the Moon Palace, and cut down the laurel tree in front of the Moon Palace every day as a punishment. This laurel tree grows luxuriantly, more than 500 zhang high, and every time it is cut down, the place that was cut will immediately close again. Li Bai wrote in the poem "Gift to Cui Sihu Wen Kunji":

If you want to cut the laurel in the moon, hold the salary of the cold".

Jade rabbit pounding medicine. There is a jade rabbit next to Chang'e. It is said that when Chang'e became lighter and began to rise into the air, she picked up the white rabbit that she had been feeding in a panic.

The white rabbit went to the moon with her. The Jade Rabbit has a medicine pestle in the Moon Palace, and at night it pounds the elixir of immortality in the medicine mortar. After this myth spread to Japan, it became a jade rabbit pounding rice cakes.

Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down to this day and endured for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to reunite people, as a sustenance of missing hometown, missing relatives, praying for a good harvest and happiness, and becoming a colorful and precious cultural heritage.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, and by the Ming and Qing dynasties, it had become the main traditional festival in China along with the Spring Festival. Different festivals have different customs, and today let's take a look at what are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival customs 1:

Moon-watching every Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, our country has had the custom of admiring the moon since ancient times, and admiring the moon and talking about the moon has become a long-standing topic. Tracing the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival and admiring the moon, according to the "Preface to Chang'an Playing with the Moon Poem": "Autumn is in time, after summer and winter; August is in autumn, the season begins and ends; Fifteen nights, and in the middle of the month.

If it is in heaven, it will be cold and hot, and if it is made in the number of months, it will be round. That is to say, August 15 is in the middle of autumn and August, so it is called: "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Why do people love the Mid-Autumn Festival and the moon? There is a poem: "There is a bright moon at four o'clock, what is the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

Yaotai Baojian, it is advisable to hang the highest head of Yuyu; released Bai Hao, scattered too empty. Vientiane enters my eyes, the stars avoid brilliance, and the wind and dew help tranquility. "From the season, the middle seed is the "autumn harvest festival", the spring sowing and summer planting of the grain should be harvested in the autumn, since ancient times, people drink and dance in this season, and celebrate the harvest with joy, which is depicted in the earliest poetry collection in our country, the Book of Songs.

In terms of origin, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also the "Moon Festival", which originated from the worship of nature by ancient humans. In the ritual system of ancient emperors, there were two sacrifices in spring and autumn: spring sacrifice day and autumn sacrifice month.

Originally, the day of the moon festival was on the day of the "autumn equinox", and the season of "autumn equinox" varies every year in August, so there is not necessarily a moon on the day of the autumn equinox.

Walk the moon. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a special moon-viewing activity called "walking the moon". Under the bright moonlight, people are dressed beautifully, and they are in groups, or they are visiting the market, or rowing on the river, or climbing the building to watch the moonlight, talking and laughing.

In the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing built the Moon Tower, played the Moon Bridge, and there was the Moon Tower under the Lion Mountain in the Qing Dynasty, all of which were the moon viewing places when the visitors "walked the moon". Mid-Autumn Festival night trip to admire the moon, Shanghainese people call it "walking the moon". Worship the moon.

Worshipping the moon is a very ancient custom during the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, and it is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "moon god". In ancient times, there was the custom of "autumn twilight and sunset". The setting moon is to worship the moon god.

From ancient times to the present, in some parts of Guangdong, people have the custom of worshiping the moon god (worshipping the moon niang, worshiping the moonlight) on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. To worship the moon, set up a large incense case, and put moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other offerings. Under the moon, the "Moon God" tablet is placed in the direction of the moon, the red candle is burned, and the whole family worships the moon in turn and prays for blessings.

Moon. The custom of moon appreciation** is to worship the moon, and the serious sacrifice becomes a relaxed entertainment. It is said that the moon is the closest to the earth on this night, and the moon is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there is a custom of drinking and feasting and admiring the moon from ancient times to the present; The daughter-in-law who returns to her mother's house must return to her husband's house to convey the meaning of perfection and auspiciousness. Moon viewing has a long history, there is no historical record, and the written record of moon viewing customs is about the beginning of the Wei and Jin dynasties.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was quite popular for admiring the moon and playing with the moon, and many poets had verses about the moon in their famous poems. [5] Tide watching.

The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history. "I know that the jade rabbit is very round and delicate, and it has been frosty and cold in September. The message is to be wide and reopen, and the night tide will stay in the middle of the moon.

This is the poem "Watching the Tide on August 15th" written by Su Shi, a great poet of the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, in the area of Zhejiang, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation, the tide watching can be described as another Mid-Autumn Festival event. [2]

The customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival include: admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, worshiping the moon, lighting lanterns, watching the tide, walking the moon, playing with lanterns, etc. The details are as follows:

1. Moon viewing. China has had the custom of admiring the moon since ancient times, and the "Book of Rites" recorded the "autumn twilight and sunset moon", that is, worshipping the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night was held to welcome the cold and sacrifice the moon.

Set up a large incense table, put on moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable.

2. Eat moon cakes.

As the saying goes: "August 15 is full, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are fragrant and sweet." Moon cakes were originally used to worship the moon god, and the word "moon cake" was first seen in the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu", at that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like a rhombic cake.

Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing with the tasting of moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion.

3. Worship the moon. Under the moon, the statue of the moon god is placed in the direction of the moon, the red candle is burned, the whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the housewife cuts the reunion moon cake. The person who cuts it calculates in advance how many people are in the whole family, and those who are at home and those who are in other places must be counted together, and they cannot cut more or less, and the size should be the same.

4. Burn the lamp. The Mid-Autumn Festival night light is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope, hung high on the eaves or terrace, or built into a zigzag or various shapes with a small lamp, and hung on the high place of the house, commonly known as "tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "vertical Mid-Autumn Festival".

[5] Tide watching. In addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zhejiang, watching the tide can be described as another Mid-Autumn Festival. The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, and there is a fairly detailed description in the "Seven Hairs" Fu of the Han Dynasty.

After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching was more prosperous. Ming Zhu Tinghuan's "Supplementing the Old Things of Wulin" and Song Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu" also have records of watching the tide.

6. Go to the moon. Under the bright moonlight, people are dressed beautifully, in groups of three or five, or visiting the market, or lacking boats on the Qinhuai River, or climbing the building to watch the moonlight, talking and laughing. In the old days, Nanjing people "walked the moon" and had a special prayer behavior:

Married women who have not given birth to a son have to go to the temple of Confucius, and then cross a bridge, and according to legend, they can have the "joy of the dream bear" (meaning to give birth to a boy).

7. Play with lanterns.

Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns, mostly concentrated in the south. As mentioned above, there are all kinds of lanterns in Foshan: sesame lamps, eggshell lamps, shavings lamps, straw lamps, fish scale lamps, chaff lamps, melon seed lamps and birds, beasts, flowers and tree lights, etc., which are amazing.